New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHILDREN (PROTECTION AND PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY) ACT 1997 - SCHEDULE 2

SCHEDULE 2 – Savings, transitional and other provisions

(Section 49)

1 Regulations

(1) The regulations may contain provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of the following Acts:

this Act

(2) Any such provision may, if the regulations so provide, take effect from the date of assent to the Act concerned or a later date.

(3) To the extent to which any such provision takes effect from a date that is earlier than the date of its publication in the Gazette, the provision does not operate so as:

(a) to affect, in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the State or an authority of the State), the rights of that person existing before the date of its publication, or

(b) to impose liabilities on any person (other than the State or an authority of the State) in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before the date of its publication.

3 Saving of pilot scheme in Orange

Any part of the area of Orange in which Part 3 of the Children (Parental Responsibility) Act 1994 applied immediately before the repeal of that Act is taken to be an area declared by order to be an operational area for the purposes of Part 3 of this Act until 31 December 1998, or until an order is made under section 16 revoking the order, whichever first occurs.